2020 Follow-up to Decisions on the Merits of Collective complaints by the European Committee of Social Rights

 

In 2020 the Committee made its findings public (in respect of Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal) that set out the Committee’s follow-up assessments  given by these countries to decisions in collective complaints.

States that have accepted the Collective Complaints procedure have to submit a simplified report every two years. The Irish report on follow up of the collective complaints can be found here

Professor Padraic Kenna (NUIG) and Cecilia Forrestal (CAN) submitted in 2020 their comments about the implementation of the Collective Complaint 110/2014, FIDH v. Ireland, which you may remember dealt with housing standards in council housing but not only: Comments from the CAN and centre for housing law, rights and policy research,NUI Galway

The findings of the Committee about Ireland have been picked up by Irish media1 2:

A human rights committee of the Council of Europe has found that local authority tenants in Ireland continue to live with inadequate housing standards.

The report by the Committee of Social Rights also states that a number of Traveller accommodation sites are in poor condition and found that Ireland remains in breach of Article 16 of the European Social Charter.

Other findings 2020 can be found here, including relevant issues in relation to Housing, Roma and Travellers.

[1] https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0324/1205725-housing-standards/

[2] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/rights-of-local-authority-tenants-and-travellers-violated-european-body-says-1.4518271

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